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LEGITIMATING THE SIERRA LEONE POLICE: POLITICS, CORRUPTION, AND PUBLIC TRUST
(2015)There are considerable variations in the level of trust and legitimacy of the police among the citizenry in different countries for a host of factors. The purpose of the current study is to determine how citizens' perception ... -
MODELING A DECADE OF ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE IN MUNICIPAL POLICE DEPARTMENTS: A LONGITUDINAL ANALYSIS OF TECHNICAL, ADMINISTRATIVE, AND PROGRAMMATIC INNOVATIONS
(2013)In efforts to facilitate reforms in American Law Enforcement agencies, there has been an increasing interest among practitioners and scholars alike to better understand the causes and conditions of police organization ... -
Paradise lost: White flight, broken windows, and the construction of a criminogenic origin myth
(American Society of Criminology, 2014)This presentation deconstructs narratives about crime, pointing to racist assumptions in narratives that are framed as colorblind. This presentation occurred at the meeting of the American Society of Criminology in San ... -
Police Experience and DNA Forensics: In Concert or at Odds: Seeking Performance in the 21st Century
(2012)This research focuses on the discourses and practices within the genetic forensic evidence and investigative process, specific to property crime scenes and the perspective of stakeholders within the investigative process. ... -
Police Officer Fatigue: The Effects of Consecutive Night Shift Work on Police Officer Performance
(2012)Police officers frequently work long, irregular and fatiguing shifts, including night shifts. The effects of night shift work on both waking alertness and ability to sleep during the day may result in degraded police officer ... -
Policing the anticommunity: Race, deterritorialization, and labor market reorganization in South Los Angeles
(Law & Society Review, 2015)Recent decades have seen the rise of both community partnerships and the carceral state. Community policing in Los Angeles arose after the 1992 uprisings and was built on two conceptual building blocks—the territorial ... -
Policing the progressive city: The racialized geography of drug law enforcement
(Theoretical Criminology, 2013)This article explores selective drug law enforcement practices in a single municipality, San Francisco, where racial disproportionality in drug arrest rates is among the highest in the United States. We situate this work ... -
QUALITY OF LIFE: ASSESSING THE MULTI-FACETED WORLD OF COMMUNITY COURT
(2019)The rise of problem-solving courts in the American criminal justice system has paved a way for a collaborative, rehabilitative approach to addressing crime. Community courts have since emerged as a criminal justice response ... -
Rational Discretionary Risk: The Judicial Risk x Sentence Model for Sex Offenders
(2016)Given that sex crimes are considered to be dangerous offenses and are perceived to have a high risk of reoffending, sex offenders are subject to disproportionality harsh treatment in criminal institutions. Sentence disparity ... -
Rush to Judgement: Understanding the Impact of Early Case Resolution on the Pace of Litigation and Quality of Justice
(2015)The court system in the United States has long suffered from a slow pace of litigation and its many consequences. Decades of research has concluded that the pace of litigation is by no means static and that certain case ... -
SEEKING INJUSTICE: A STUDY OF PROSECUTORIAL MISCONDCUT IN WASHINGTON STATE
(2019)Prosecutorial misconduct is one of a number of factors that has been identified as partially responsible for wrongful convictions. Where many of these factors have been researched quite heavily, there is a comparative ... -
State Administration of Drug Courts: Exploring Issues of Authority, Funding, and Legitimacy
(Criminal Justice Policy Review, 2007)Although drug courts are local programs, many were established using federal grant dollars from the U.S. Department of Justice. As these federal grants run their course and overall federal funding for drug courts declines, ... -
The "Territorial Imperative" and Problem Solving Partnerships: LAPD Defines Community
(2013)This presentation, delivered in 2013 for the American Society of Criminology, considers community-based policing and its use in Los Angeles, California. The presentation considers the effect of community-based policing on ... -
THE EFFECTS OF CANNABIS AND THE LEGALIZATION OF MARIJUANA ON FATAL CRASHES IN WASHINGTON STATE
(2019)As cannabis use is legalized in more states, traffic crashes and fatalities related to cannabis and other drugs are becoming a major public health and safety issue. While researchers and policy makers have focused considerable ... -
The Forensic Identification of Marijuana: Suspicion, Moral Danger, and the Creation of Non-Psychoactive THC
(Albany Law Review, 2012)American federal and state laws present marijuana as a dangerous substance requiring coercive control and forbid private citizens from possessing, selling, or growing it. The differences between marijuana and hemp--a similar ... -
The Influence of Suspect Race and Ethnicity on Decisions to Shoot in a Deadly Force Judgment and Decision-Making Simulator
(2011)Concern that the status characteristics of suspects influence police use of deadly force has generated substantial during the past several decades. Previous research based on incident reports of police shootings and ... -
The Plain Touch Doctrine: Political Affiliation and Judicial Decision-Making
(2016)The Plain Touch exception to the Fourth Amendment allows police officers to seize contraband that is found during a Terry frisk. The exception, as outlined in the case of Minnesota v. Dickerson, extends the doctrine of ... -
The Rule of Law: An Examination of Judicial Discretion in Terrorism Appeals
(2017)Prosecuting terrorism has proven to be difficult for the criminal justice system in recent decades. Moreover, terrorists are qualitatively different than traditional criminals. As a result, certain complexities arise that ... -
TRUST IN THE POLICE: ANALYSIS OF URBAN CITIES IN GHANA
(2015)Given the deteriorated relationship between the police and the people of Ghana, this study examines the causes of trust in selected urban areas in Ghana. Specifically, the study aims to: (1) test the performance theory for ...